Introduction
A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You'll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you'll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.
Your Role And Responsibilities
As an Application Architect specializing in Oracle OCI Database & Infrastructure, you will design and architect enterprise-grade solutions on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, translating business requirements into cloud-native architectures that are secure, highly available, cost-efficient, and aligned with enterprise standards. You will focus on database modernization, cloud landing zone design, and OCI core infrastructure architecture to support large-scale applications and workloads. Your primary responsibilities will include:
- Design Cloud-Native Architectures: Design OCI landing zones with enterprise standards for tenancy structure, compartments, security, networking, monitoring, and logging, ensuring alignment with performance, scalability, and compliance requirements.
- Architect Database Solutions: Architect database solutions using OCI-native services, such as Autonomous Database, Exadata Cloud Service, and Database Cloud Service, to meet business needs.
- Define High Availability Architectures: Define high availability, disaster recovery, and multi-region architectures leveraging Autonomous Data Guard, GoldenGate, and OCI replication services to ensure business continuity.
- Lead Solution Design Workshops: Lead solution design workshops, proof-of-concepts (POCs), and technical reviews to validate architecture choices and provide technical leadership and guidance to DBAs, migration engineers, and developers.
- Establish Migration Blueprints: Establish migration and modernization blueprints, including re-host, re-platform, and re-architecture approaches, to support large-scale application migrations.
Preferred Education
Master's Degree
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
- Cloud Architecture Expertise: Experience with designing and architecting enterprise-grade solutions on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, including cloud-native architectures, database modernization, and cloud landing zone design.
- OCI Services Knowledge: Experience with OCI-native services, including Autonomous Database, Exadata Cloud Service, and Database Cloud Service, as well as OCI core infrastructure components such as VCNs, subnets, load balancers, and firewalls.
- High Availability Design: Experience with defining high availability, disaster recovery, and multi-region architectures using Autonomous Data Guard, GoldenGate, and OCI replication services.
- Automation Frameworks: Experience with creating automation frameworks using OCI Resource Manager (Terraform), Ansible, and CI/CD pipelines to accelerate deployments.
- Security Compliance: Experience with partnering with security teams to ensure compliance with SOC2, ISO, GDPR, and enterprise governance policies.
Preferred Technical And Professional Experience
- Hybrid Cloud Integration: Experience with designing hybrid and multi-cloud architectures, integrating OCI with AWS, Azure, and GCP via Direct Connect, ExpressRoute, and Interconnect.
- Multi-Region Architecture: Experience with defining high availability, disaster recovery, and multi-region architectures leveraging Autonomous Data Guard, GoldenGate, and OCI replication services.
- Automation Framework Development: Experience with creating automation frameworks using OCI Resource Manager (Terraform), Ansible, and CI/CD pipelines to accelerate deployments.
